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Clafs and Order. 
“.s Potycamia Monecia, 
Generic Chara&er. 
| HERMAPHROD. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fhda. Siam. 5 {, 3 
plura. Pit. 1. Legumen. 
MASC. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-fida. Stam. 5. 10. plurae - 
Specific Charaéter and ‘Synonyms. 
MIMOSA verticillata inermis, foliis verticillatis linearibus — 
pungentibus. L’Herit. fert. angl. t. 41+ Hort. 
Kew. p. 438. 
iilliadinaiine 
The radical leaves of plants ufually differ in fhape from 
thofe of the ftalk, in fome plants remarkably fo; the Lepr — 
dium perfoliatum figured in the Flora Auffriaca of Profeflor — 
Jacquin isa ftriking inftance of this diffimilarity: the Lae 
thyrus Apbaca, a Britifh plant, figured in the Flora Lond. 8 — 
‘ftill more fuch, as large entire leaf-like flipula grow in palrs — 
on the ftalk, inftead of leaves, while the true leaves next the — 
root, vifible when the plant firft comes up from feed, are few_@ 
_ in number, and thofe pinnated. The prefent plant no lefs : 
admirably illuftrates the above remark, the leaves which firft a 
appear on the feedling plants being pinnated, as is reprefented — 
in the {mall figure on the plate, while thofe which afterwards 
come forth grow in whorls. We have obferved the fame dif- 
polition to produce diffimilar leaves in feveral other fpecies 
of Mimofa, which have arifen from Botany-Bay feeds, lately — 
introduced. : 
This fingular fpecies, on the authority of Mr. Davi NEL- 
SON, isa native of New South Wales, and was introduced — 
to the royal garden at Kew by Sir Joseru Banks, Bart. 
We firft faw it in flower, and have fince feen it with mpe — 
feed-pods, at Mr. Maxcoum’s, Kennington. a 
It is properly a green-houfe plant, and propagated only by 
feeds, which are to be fown on a gentle hot-bed. ae 
It is fome years in arriving at its flowering ftate. 
